Many years ago, I bought a copy of Piers Bizony’s “2001; Filming The Future” in a used book store. Tucked inside the book were 8 glossy promotional prints from 2001. I have not the slightest clue where they came from. The prints themselves seemed new, and were cetainly in good shape, but the images themselves… well, they weren’t the best quality. Still, they were interesting.
Some years later I moved to Utah. The prints ended up in my shop. And as I found out real quick, the shop is not as waterproof as I might’ve hoped. Along with losing all the printed issues of the initial run of APR, a lot of other things got wet when rain worked it way in. Included in the list were the glossies… the water did a fantastic job of gluing them together into one inflexible mass. They stayed that way for some years, up until a month ago when I decided to experiment. Turns out Windex helps to soften them up and allows them to be peeled away from each other. Not intact, not without noticable flaws, but better than nothing. So, not having anything better to do with them, I scanned them, and here are the first two of eight:
Moonbus.
Dave Bowman lookin’ all serious and stuff.
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I think that’s the first color shot of the Moon Bus I’ve ever seen.
That thing was a nifty design; I never could figure out if the landing gear was supposed to have treads on it to allow it to crawl around once landed.
the Moonbus is a great design, and I always wondered the same thing about the treads/landing gear.
Just now I was wondering if it had a small 1-person airlock, or if the whole thing would depress. Probably the small lock with a lot of waiting outside for your friends….